TripAdvisor Reviews Kazuki Kyoto

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... It is very famous in Kyoto and is along one street. There were lots of little shops and stalls selling all kinds of things. We saw fresh fish and sushi, octopus tentacles, green tea and tea made from soy beans, snacks, chopsticks and so much more. The best thing was lots of the stalls had samples to taste! Yipppeeeee!! We would have loved to have bought loads of stuff but it was too pricey for us and we don't have the space! Then we caught a train to Daitokuji which is ...

... food item to try, a crab stick. Bree wanted nothing to do with it so she decided to poke around in the shops while I went ahead and placed my order. It was her loss because I thought the crab stick was delicious. I’d rather not think about how crab meat ended up in that particular shape but instead I just focused on the flavor which was excellent.

Next on our list was to head back into the center of Kyoto to search out the Nishiki Market, a famous food ...

... Before the meet up at 9.45am, I had time to scamper down the road for breakfast and a quick temple walkabout, as one does, and then joined the seven others taking the tour. It was not organised per se, although we had a notional tour leader - Cecilia, from Hong Kong - and we just headed for the train station where we bought tickets for the one and a half hour journey to Himeji. The first stop was Himeji Castle, which towered over the sleek, spacious, modern ...

... our Ryokan (Japanese style hotel). The next hour was a bit of a schmozzle. We wanted to make sure that we had American cash to pay for our Cambodia tour. We were told that Tuesday was a national holiday so we weren't sure what was going to be open. The information booth gave us directions to the Currency Exchange place in the station, but it was very poorly mapped. We had to ask several times and criss-crossed the station multiple times before we found it. ...

... t happen as my body required more than four hours of broken sleep. We accidentally fell back to sleep until 11am and were consequently visited by the receptionist urging us to check out. We dragged our belongings off the bunks and zombie walked to have a shower downstairs. As our bus was not leaving until that evening we had plenty of time to fit in more sight seeing. First up was Arashiyama, which was a pretty village with a number of petite shrines and temples, ...